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Notices Federal Register

52809 

Vol. 73, No. 177 

Thursday, September 11, 2008 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and 

Humanitarian Assistance; Office of 

Food for Peace; Announcement of 

Draft Food for Peace Public Law 480 

Title II Program Policies and Proposal 

Guidelines (FY09) 

Notice 

Pursuant to the Food for Peace Act of 

2008 (Pub. L. 480, as amended), notice 

is hereby given that the Draft Food for 

Peace Public Law 480 Title II Program 

Policies and Proposal Guidelines (FY 

09) are being made available to 

interested parties for the required thirty 

(30) day comment period. 

The draft guidelines may be found at 

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/ 

humanitarian_assistance/ffp/. 

Individuals who wish to receive a hard 

copy of these draft guidelines should 

contact: Office of Food for Peace, U.S. 

Agency for International Development, 

RRB 7.06–136, 1300 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20523– 

7600. Individuals who have questions or 

comments on the draft guidelines 

should contact both Juli Majernik (at the 

above address, by phone at (202) 712– 

4088, or by e-mail at 

jmajernik@usaid.gov) and copy AMEX 

International, Inc., at 

ffpdocs@amexdc.com. The thirty day 

comment period will begin on the date 

that this announcement is published in 

the Federal Register. 

Juli Majernik, 

Office of Food for Peace, Bureau for 

Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E8–21184 Filed 9–10–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Office of the Secretary 

Privacy Act of 1974; Abolish Obsolete 

System of Records 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of abolishment of U.S. 

Department of Agriculture System of 

Records USDA/FS–05 Certified Cost 

Collectors record system. 

SUMMARY: The records formerly 

maintained in this Privacy Act System 

of Records, USDA/FS–05 Certified Cost 

Collectors are no longer maintained, and 

the System of Records is obsolete. 

Therefore, this system is being 

abolished and removed from the 

inventory of USDA System of Records 

in accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. 

DATES: This notice is effective on 

September 11, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: For additional information 

contact the Director of Forest 

Management, Forest Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., Mailstop 

1103, Washington, DC 20250–1103. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Director of Forest Management, Forest 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

telephone: (202) 205–0893; or e-mail to 

wo_foia@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as 

amended, requires that each agency 

publish a notice of the existence and 

character of each new or altered ‘‘system 

of records.’’ 5 U.S.C. 552a(a)(5). This 

notice identifies and abolishes a U.S. 

Department of Agriculture discontinued 

and obsolete system of records, USDA/ 

FS–05 Certified Cost Collectors. The 

records formerly maintained in this 

System of Records have been destroyed 

according to the Federal Records 

Disposal Act of 1943 (44 U.S.C. 366– 

380) and the Federal Records Act of 

1950, and as designated in the Forest 

Service Records Management Handbook 

(FSH) 6209.11. 

Dated: August 29, 2008. 

Edward T. Schafer, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–21214 Filed 9–10–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0092] 

Potato Cyst Nematode; Update of 

Quarantined Areas 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of changes to 

quarantined area. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have made changes to the area 

in the State of Idaho that is quarantined 

to prevent the spread of potato cyst 

nematode. The description of the 

quarantined area was updated on June 

27, 2008, when nine fields were 

released from designation as 

quarantined areas and four fields were 

added as quarantined areas. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eileen Y. Smith, National Program 

Manager, Emergency and Domestic 

Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road, Unit 150, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1236; (301) 734–5235. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The potato cyst nematode (PCN) 

(Globodera pallida) is a major pest of 

potato crops in cool-temperature areas. 

Other solanaceous hosts include 

tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, tomatillos, 

and some weeds. The PCN is thought to 

have originated in Peru and is now 

widely distributed in many potatogrowing regions of the world. PCN 

infestations may be expressed as 

patches of poor growth. Affected potato 

plants may exhibit yellowing, wilting, 

or death of foliage. Even with only 

minor symptoms on the foliage, potato 

tuber size can be affected. Unmanaged 

infestations can cause potato yield loss 

ranging from 20 to 70 percent. The 

spread of this pest in the United States 

could result in a loss of domestic or 

foreign markets for U.S. potatoes and 

other commodities. 

The PCN quarantine regulations 

(§§ 301.86 through 301.86–9, referred to 

below as the regulations) set out 

procedures for determining the areas 

quarantined for PCN and impose 

restrictions on the interstate movement 

of regulated articles from quarantined 

areas. 


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Section 301.86–3 of the regulations 

sets out the procedures for determining 

the areas quarantined for PCN. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 states that, 

in accordance with the criteria listed in 

§ 301.86–3(c), the Administrator will 

designate as a quarantined area each 

field that has been found to be infested 

with PCN, each field that has been 

found to be associated with an infested 

field, and any area that the 

Administrator considers necessary to 

quarantine because of its inseparability 

for quarantine enforcement purposes 

from infested or associated fields. 

Paragraph (c) provides that the 

Administrator will designate a field as 

an infested field when PCN is found in 

the field. Paragraph (c) also provides 

that the Administrator will designate a 

field as an associated field when PCN 

host crops, as listed in § 301.86–2(b), 

have been grown in the field in the last 

10 years and the field shares a border 

with an infested field; the field came 

into contact with a regulated article 

listed in § 301.86–2 from an infested 

field within the last 10 years; or, within 

the last 10 years, the field shared 

ownership, tenancy, seed, drainage or 

runoff, farm machinery, or other 

elements of shared cultural practices 

with an infested field that could allow 

spread of the PCN, as determined by the 

Administrator. 

Paragraph (b) describes the conditions 

for the designation of an area less than 

an entire State as a quarantined area. 

Less than an entire State will be 

designated as a quarantined area only if 

the Administrator determines that: 

1. The State has adopted and is 

enforcing restrictions on the intrastate 

movement of the regulated articles that 

are equivalent to those imposed by the 

regulations on the interstate movement 

of regulated articles; and 

2. The designation of less than the 

entire State as a quarantined area will 

prevent the interstate spread of PCN. 

We have determined that it is not 

necessary to designate the entire State of 

Idaho as a quarantined area. Idaho has 

adopted and is enforcing restrictions on 

the intrastate movement of regulated 

articles from that area that are 

equivalent to those we are imposing on 

the interstate movement of regulated 

articles. 

Paragraph (d) provides for the 

removal of fields from quarantine. An 

infested field will be removed from 

quarantine when a 3-year biosurvey 

protocol approved by APHIS has been 

completed and the field has been found 

to be free of PCN. An associated field 

will be removed from quarantine when 

the field has been found to be free of 

PCN according to a survey protocol 

approved by the Administrator as 

sufficient to support removal from 

quarantine. Any area other than infested 

or associated fields which has been 

quarantined by the Administrator 

because of its inseparability for 

quarantine enforcement purposes from 

infested or associated fields will be 

removed from quarantine when the 

relevant infested or associated fields are 

removed from quarantine. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 further 

provides that the Administrator will 

publish the description of the 

quarantined area on the Plant Protection 

and Quarantine (PPQ) Web site, http:// 

www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/ 

plant_pest_info/potato/pcn.shtml. The 

description of the quarantined area will 

include the date the description was last 

updated and a description of the 

changes that have been made to the 

quarantined area. The description of the 

quarantined area may also be obtained 

by request from any local office of PPQ; 

local offices are listed in telephone 

directories. Finally, paragraph (a) 

establishes that, after a change is made 

to the quarantined area, we will publish 

a notice in the Federal Register 

informing the public that the change has 

occurred and describing the change to 

the quarantined area. 

We are publishing this notice to 

inform the public of changes to the PCN 

quarantined area in accordance with 

§ 301.86–3(a). On June 27, 2008, we 

updated the quarantined areas to release 

nine fields from designation as 

quarantined areas and add four fields to 

the quarantined area. 

Eight of the nine fields were removed 

from quarantine as associated fields 

after being found to be free of PCN 

according to a survey protocol approved 

by the Administrator as sufficient to 

support removal from quarantine, under 

paragraph (d)(2) of § 301.86–3. The 

ninth field was removed from 

quarantine because we determined that 

it did not meet the criteria for an 

associated field listed in § 301.86–

3(c)(2). The fields removed from 

quarantine were in Bonneville and 

Bingham Counties. 

The four fields added to the 

quarantine areas were designated as 

associated fields because they share a 

border with an infested field. Paragraph 

(c)(2) of § 301.86–3 indicates that such 

fields will be considered associated 

fields and therefore will be added to the 

quarantined area. The fields designated 

as quarantined areas are in Bonneville 

County. 

The current map of the quarantined 

area can be viewed on the PPQ Web site 

at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

plant_health/plant_pest_info/potato/ 

pcn.shtml. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781–

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of 

September 2008. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–21115 Filed 9–10–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Request for Proposals for Woody 

Biomass Utilization Grant—Forest 

Restoration Activities on National 

Forest System Lands 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Request for proposals. 

SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service, 

State and Private Forestry, Technology 

Marketing Unit, located at the Forest 

Products Laboratory, requests proposals 

for forest product projects that increase 

the use of woody biomass from National 

Forest System lands. The woody 

biomass utilization grant program is 

intended to help improve forest 

restoration activities by using and 

creating markets for small-diameter 

material and low-valued trees removed 

from forest restoration activities, such as 

reducing hazardous fuels, handling 

insect and diseased conditions, or 

treating forestlands impacted by 

catastrophic weather events. These 

funds are targeted to help communities, 

entrepreneurs, and others turn residues 

from forest restoration activities into 

marketable forest products and/or 

energy products. 

DATES: Pre-application Postmark 

Deadline: November 7, 2008. Full 

application Postmark Deadline: 

February 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: All pre- and full-application 

packages must be sent to the following 

address: ATTN: Patricia Brumm, Grants 

and Agreements Specialist, Forest 

Products Laboratory, One Gifford 

Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53726–

2398. Detailed information regarding 

what to include in the pre- and fullapplication, definitions of terms, 

eligibility and Federal restrictions are 

available at http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/tmu 

(under Woody Biomass Grants), and at 

http://www.grants.gov). Paper copies of 

the information are also available by 

contacting the USDA Forest Service, 

S&PF Technology Marketing Unit, One 

Gifford Pinchot Dr., Madison, 

Wisconsin 53726–2398, 608–231–9504. 


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